Thread: 'select where' using multiple columns.

Hi,

I've googled around for this but can't see a decent way of doing this :

I've got a persons name which is being stored say in 3 columns :-  
Title, Forename_1, Forename_2, Surname. I want to allow a search say for 
'John Smith'. Problem is I can't just break it up into forename and 
surname because I won't also know.
Is there a way to do something like a
'select * where forename_1,forename_2,surname like '%String%'   ??

Thanks for any help. Apologies if its a FAQ.

Rob

Hi.

Rob Kirkbride wrote:
> I've googled around for this but can't see a decent way of doing this :
> 
> I've got a persons name which is being stored say in 3 columns :- 
> Title, Forename_1, Forename_2, Surname. I want to allow a search say for
> 'John Smith'. Problem is I can't just break it up into forename and
> surname because I won't also know.
> Is there a way to do something like a
> 'select * where forename_1,forename_2,surname like '%String%'   ??
> 
> Thanks for any help. Apologies if its a FAQ.

SELECT * FROM table WHERE forename_1 || ' ' || forename_2 || ' ' ||
surname LIKE '%String%';

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RK> Hi,

RK> I've googled around for this but can't see a decent way of doing this :

RK> I've got a persons name which is being stored say in 3 columns :-  
RK> Title, Forename_1, Forename_2, Surname. I want to allow a search say for 
RK> 'John Smith'. Problem is I can't just break it up into forename and 
RK> surname because I won't also know.
RK> Is there a way to do something like a
RK> 'select * where forename_1,forename_2,surname like '%String%'   ??

RK> Thanks for any help. Apologies if its a FAQ.

RK> Rob


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Try this way:

select * .... where forename_1||' '||forename_2||' '||surname like '%String%'

or

select * .... where forename_1||' '||forename_2||' '||surname~'String'

DAQ

> Is there a way to do something like a
> 'select * where forename_1,forename_2,surname like '%String%'   ??


You could try the following, but it won't get a medal for performance...

SELECT * FROM xpto WHERE forename_1 LIKE '%String%' OR forename_2 LIKE 
'%String%' OR surname LIKE '%String%'



Helder M. Vieira 

Ian Johannesen wrote:

>Hi.
>
>Rob Kirkbride wrote:
>  
>
>>I've got a persons name which is being stored say in 3 columns :- 
>>Title, Forename_1, Forename_2, Surname. I want to allow a search say for
>>'John Smith'. Problem is I can't just break it up into forename and
>>surname because I won't also know.
>>Is there a way to do something like a
>>'select * where forename_1,forename_2,surname like '%String%'   ??
>>
>>    
>>
>SELECT * FROM table WHERE forename_1 || ' ' || forename_2 || ' ' ||
>surname LIKE '%String%';
>
>  
>
Thanks for the quick response. I've tried that and it works fine. Thanks 
a lot and thanks to Daq and Helder.

Rob